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Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This series seeks to capture the traditional history of science and technology, and emphasizes explanations of the hard science practices that it seeks to historicize.

Series Editors

Jed Z. Buchwald

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The Body Populace

Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
Heinrich Hartmann 2019
- Paperback $40.00 £30.00
The Age of Electroacoustics

Transforming Science and Sound
Roland Wittje 2016
- Hardcover $40.00 £30.00
Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe

US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation
John Krige 2016
- Hardcover $33.00 £26.00
Heredity Explored

Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930
Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt 2016
- Hardcover $49.00 £38.00
Rational Action

The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
William Thomas 2015
- Hardcover $40.00 £30.00
The Genealogy of a Gene

Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
Myles W. Jackson 2015
- Hardcover $37.00 £29.00
- Paperback $25.00 £20.00
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Naomi Oreskes and John Krige 2014
- Hardcover $78.00 £64.95
- Paperback $39.00 £30.00
Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
Lino Camprubí 2014
- Hardcover $45.00 £35.00
Emil du Bois-Reymond

Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Gabriel Finkelstein 2013
- Hardcover $42.00 £33.00
The Psychophysical Ear

Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910
Alexandra Hui 2012
- Hardcover $37.00 £29.00
Progressive Enlightenment

The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820
Leslie Tomory 2012
- Hardcover $34.00 £27.00
Neither Physics nor Chemistry

A History of Quantum Chemistry
Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões 2011
- Hardcover $47.00 £37.00
Lenin's Laureate

Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Paul R. Josephson 2010
- Hardcover $7.75 £6.99
Crafting the Quantum

Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926
Suman Seth 2010
- Hardcover $35.00 £27.00
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
Niccolò Guicciardini 2009
- Hardcover $55.00 £37.95
- Paperback $25.00 £20.00
A Nuclear Winter's Tale

Science and Politics in the 1980s
Lawrence Badash 2009
- Hardcover $9.75 £8.95
H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism

A Study in Translation and Transformation
Sander Gliboff 2008
- Hardcover $8.75 £7.95
Weather by the Numbers

The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
Kristine C. Harper 2008
- Hardcover $42.00 £28.95
- Paperback $25.00 £20.00
The Tropics of Empire

Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
Nicolás Wey Gómez 2008
- Hardcover $43.95 £34.00
Red Prometheus

Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990
Dolores L. Augustine 2007
- Hardcover $9.75 £7.99
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
George Saliba 2007
- Hardcover $43.00 £31.95
- Paperback $30.00 £24.00
Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science

A Historical Ontology
Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre 2007
- Hardcover $9.75 £8.95
- Paperback $42.00 £33.00
Heredity Produced

At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870
Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 2007
- Hardcover $55.00 £43.00
Ships and Science

The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
Larrie D. Ferreiro 2006
- Hardcover $10.75 £7.95
- Paperback $35.00 £27.00
Harmonious Triads

Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson 2006
- Hardcover $40.00 £27.95
- Paperback $30.00 £24.00
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
John Krige 2006
- Hardcover $40.00 £29.95
- Paperback $30.00 £24.00
The Path Not Taken

French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
Jeff Horn 2006
- Hardcover $10.75 £9.95
- Paperback $30.00 £24.00
Historia

Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi 2005
- Hardcover $56.00 £44.00
Picturing Machines 1400–1700
Wolfgang Lefèvre 2004
- Hardcover $42.00 £33.00
Conserving the Enlightenment

French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution
Janis Langins 2003
- Hardcover $13.75 £10.99